Improvement in sewing-machine tables



D. SNITJBR. Sewing-Machine Table.

No. 222,322. Patented Dec. 2,1879.

FIG. 4".

ATTEsTz' the table.

- UNITED 4STATES *PATENT OFFICE.g

DRIKUS SNITJER, oF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEWING-MACHINE TABLES.`

Specification forming part of Letters Iatcnt No.' 222.322, dated December r2, 1879 applicatin filed March 5, 1879.

pending the cover bottom upward from the end of the table, so as to form a receptacle for the work, &c. and it consists in attaching a hooked lip to the insideof the cover and another hooked lip to the under side of the table` the two hooks being adapted to interlock and hold the edge of the cover closely beneath the edge of the table and against the edge of Y the stand, so that the cover is heldin an inverted horizontal position'.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an under perspective view of part of the sewing-machine stand'with my improvement appliedpart of the cover being broken away to show the lock or suspending device. Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are transverse sections through the lock. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 show modifications.

A is part of one of the nprights or Vend, legframe of the stand,and B is the table. G is the cover, shown broken away in part, Fig. 1, to exhibit the devicefor attaching the same to D is a hooked lip attached to the under side 0f the table B. E is a hooked li-p of similar construction, attached to the insidie of one of the edges of the cover. These lips hold the edge of the cover, as shown, in the corner formed by thewtable and the upright A of the stand, and the side of the cover rest against the side of the upright, giving abraoing support.

When the suspending device is made as in Figs. 1 and 2 the lips Orcleats D and E are made not over one-half the length of the inside length of the cover, so that the cover-can be applied with its edge directly in contact with the under side of the table, and with the posterior end of the lip or cleat E in proximity to the anterior end of the lip or cleat D, in such position that the lips can be engaged by a simplebackward horizontal movement of the y In Fig. 3 the lips are shown so formedthat the cover can be hung by applying `it to the top B, with theouter side of the cover elevated,

as indicated in dotted lines, and, after the engagement of the lips together, moving theA 'side of the table B, said cleat beingslightly less than half the inside length of the cover G. E is a plain rectangular cleat, equal in length to that of cleat D, and secured to the inside of the cover. The cleat E fills the inner angle o f the cleat D, and the outer edge of the cover bears against the stand both -at top and bottom, so that it is rmly held in place. With this style of attachment, like that Shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the cover is applied tothe bottom of the table B, with its front end about half its length in front of the line of the table, and then, by a Simple backward horizontal movement of the cover, the cleat Eis engaged:

with that of cleat D, as shown.

I claim as my invention- The combination, with the stand A, table B, and cover C of a sewing-machine, of the hooked lip E, attached to theinside of the cover, and hooked lip D, attached to the under side of the table, as and for the purpose set forth.

DRIKUS SNITJER.

Witnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, GEO. H. KNIGHT. 

